The Goodnight Train: A Soothing Adventure to Bedtime on the Goodnight Train

I can't tell you enough how much we love this book. When it's time for bed and I'm talking to my 2 year old about our bedtime routine he gets really excited about "choo choo" book. This book helps ease the transition to bedtime. It has wonderful pictures that we all enjoy (myself and my 11 year old daughter as well). When you look closely at the pictures there's so many fun little things added in. Like the squirrel eating out of the fridge in a tree, the mermaid putting on night cream, the sheep taking wool of another sheep to knit a blanket. It took me a few weeks or reading it nightly to really pay attention to what's in the pictures. Now we have fun pointing out the goofy things. The words are catchy and fun to read. The story is a sing songy rhyme that flows easily and is very catchy. It's not too short nor too long. Definitely a keeper. This will be a great go-to birthday gift for 1-3 year olds.

Love this series, my boys have most of the series and didn’t have this one right away. Worth getting these.

This is my duaghter's FAVORITE bedtime story. I've been reading it to her every night since she was probably about 6 months old, sometimes multiple times a day (before naps as well). I have a good variety of books I switch between and read her 3-4 every night, but this one is a must in that rotation. It's always the last one we read and she knows when goodnight train is choo-chooing, it's time to settle in. She turns the pages herself and has started to recognize the pages that mama does all the dramatic train sounds. Thank you for writing this book - it's my go-to book gift for friend's kids birthdays.

Cute book. Similar to goodnight moon. Given as gift to toddler who loves trains.

Love the illustrations. Great rhyming. My son is engaged.

My 18 month old daughter really adores this book. She calls it the "Choo Choo" book and already starts requesting it as soon as we are drying off post bath. The illustrations are beautiful and the story rhymes well. It has an easy-to-read cadence about it, and I think the best parts (both her favorite, and mine!) are the sound effects: "clickety-clack", "huff-a-puff-a! choo! choo!", "Rock-a rock-a shhhh! shhhh!", "Scrub-a-dub toot toot!". The reason I am giving 4 stars instead of 5 is because there is one page, right in the middle of the book, that does not have any story lines on it to read. This really bothers me! Like I said, the book is very rhythmic and easy to read. This page messes up my flow. It's an illustration that does have 2 signs on it, but the signs don't contribute to the story, nor do they rhyme or flow along with the cadence of the rest of the book. I wish they skipped this blank page. It's pointless and annoying!

The toddler loves this story and so do I. A great book to offer as an option, especially at bedtime. Even though it's a children's book, it's fun to read. The book has a pretty nice cadence which starts fast and slows. Love that wind down! There's lots of things in the pictures and my toddler loves pointing them out and I'm happy he's enjoying books.

A visually beautiful bedtime story that is also really fun to read. My two-year-old has a train fixation and this definitely entertained him. We just read it for the first time last night and he wanted me to read it three times. His favorite page(s) is the one where the train crosses over the bridge with a great big full moon in the background. He always flips back to that page and stares at it for a long time.

Bellissimo, mia figlia 9 mesi lo adora

Ich habe dieses Buch verbeult (!!) erhalten (es kann nicht gerade auf dem Tisch liegen!). Es war nicht originalverpackt - die letzte Seite ist eingerissen und zerkratzt. und das Unglaublichste: es sind dreckige Fingerabdrücke auf dem Cover hinten: KEine Sterne, geht zurück Wie kann man sowas einem Kunden schicken?

Great book. Thank you

Lovely book. My 10 month old has little interest in illustrations but is fascinated with the ones in this book. Great bedtime story

Livre en anglais. Ma fille de 3 ans et mon fils de 1 an adorent ce livre et aiment répéter les bruits du train "choooo choooo"!... Le livre a de jolies images avec pleins d'éléments, ma fille aime les regarder et repérer les petits éléments du quotidien comme la baignoire, les cookies, la brosse à dents etc.. qui sont joliment intégrés.